Saki's English Blog

    WHAT? A PRINCESS? ME? It can't be true. My mouth opened but no words came out . I started to cry. My dad leaned across the table and touched my hand.   Mia is a usual high school student in New York until her father tells her a secret. What's the secret? She lives in a apartment with her mother, and her father lives in Genovia which is situated between France and Italy. One day, her father visited them and he takes Mia to the rich restaurant. Then, she will know the important truth. She is a princess of Genovia!! Of course, her father is a prince of that country so she is his heir. If you were Mia, could you believe that truth? Maybe, I couldn't. I would be really panicked because the truth is way too surprising.  Her life drastically changes. When she goes to school, her bodyguard pick her up with limousine. In school, her bodyguard always follows her wherever she goes.   When I was a child, I want to be a Disney Princess like Rapunzel. Because I thought princess

   The Borrowers are very small and very clever. They can climb, they make machines and they want to fight Ocious P. Potter before he squashes them!      Have you ever met very small people?  The Lender family lives happily but something mysterious happens often. Their things are lost and maybe someone steals them. In fact, the Clock family, borrowers’ family who are very small people live under the floors in Lender’s house. They take Lender’s things away and bring to their home. But they say they have never stolen one’s things, just borrow them. One day, the Clock family go up to the floor and look for useful things. Father Pod, his daughter Arrietty, and his son Peagreen enjoy their life. But, unfortunately, Pete Lender finds them. Pod’s family thinks human beings are really dangerous and they squash borrowers as soon as they find them. So the borrowers run away quickly. The lender family also face difficult things. They have to sell their house because a bad lawyer called Mr. Pott

  And people always said, "Mr Scrooge knows how to celebrate Christmas, better than any other man on Earth." May somebody say that about us, too. All of us! Once upon a time, an old man named Scrooge lived in a cold and dark house. Many people thought he was a cold, greedy, mean, old man. They weren't trying to be his friends. So Scrooge didn't have any friends, and to make matters worse, his only friend, Marley had passed recently. He completely became alone. One cold night, something visited his house... It was a ghost!! It warned him to escape his fate. What is his fate?? The following nights, other ghosts came to his house, and took him to his past, present, future. What will happen to him?? Before reading this book, I thought this book is a happy story about Christmas, but actually it wasn't. Some lessons were in it. First, be kind to other people. Second, change one's self is not easy, but very important. After reading it, my heart became warmer.